Monika Weiss is an artist, filmmaker and composer based in New York
City since 2001. Weiss’ work is currently represented by Silas Von Morrise Gallery,
New York and Galerie Samuel Lalouz, Montreal and featured in public collections and
publications worldwide. Born in Warsaw, Poland she graduated from Warsaw School of
Music and Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Her solo museum exhibitions include the 2005
retrospective at the Lehman College Art Gallery/CUNY, Five Rivers, reviewed in The
New York Times, as well as Sustenazo, commissioned by the CCA Zamek Ujazdowski,
Warsaw/Poland (2010), and later shown at Museum of Memory & Human Rights,
Santiago/Chile (2012-2013) and Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (2014).
Her work has been featured in international group exhibitions, including at the
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (Forms of Classification, 2006; The
Prisoner’s Dilemma, 2008) and was part of Prague’s Muzeum Montanelli’s inaugural
show in 2010. Commissioned by The Drawing Center, her public project Drawing Lethe
(2006) took place at the WFC Winter Garden within sight of Ground Zero. In Shrouds
(2012), Weiss filmed, from an airplane, local women performing silent gestures of
lamentation on the abandoned, forgotten site of the former concentration camp for
women. Her Two Laments (19 Cantos), 2015-2017, is a series of films and sound
compositions inspired by events in India and dedicated to two forms of globally
occurring violence: the rape of women and the colonial subjugation of cities. In
2016 her film and sound composition Wrath was presented in Fireflies in the Night
Take Wing, an international survey curated by Barbara London, Kalliopi Minioudaki,
Francesca Pietropaolo, and artistic director Robert Storr for at The Stavros
Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece.
